Mohamad Naufal Mohamad Saad

École de Technologie Supérieure, Universiti Teknologi Petronas

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Mohamad Naufal Mohamad Saad is a roboticist whose research bridges adaptive control, networked robotics, and cloud-based multi-agent systems. His most cited work introduces a backstepping adaptive position control for robotic manipulators, a rigorous Lyapunov-based approach that enforces stability in strict-feedback systems—a foundational contribution with 11 citations that continues to inform modern adaptive control design. In the domain of mobile actor/robot networks, Saad developed the CARE algorithm, a coverage-aware connectivity restoration protocol that addresses the critical challenge of cut-vertex failures while preserving sensor coverage, a problem of growing importance in autonomous disaster response and environmental monitoring. His forward-looking research on dynamic electronic institutions within agent-oriented cloud robotic systems explores how cloud computing paradigms can enable scalable, coordinated robot teams, anticipating the current shift toward cloud robotics and robot-as-a-service models. Saad’s work demonstrates a consistent thread: designing theoretically grounded, practically deployable solutions that ensure stability, resilience, and coordination in increasingly autonomous robotic systems. His contributions are particularly valuable for researchers working at the intersection of control theory, networked robotics, and cloud infrastructure.